Jail

Tan Cheok Yen, 43, stole 311 items such as books, clothes, shoes and compact discs, worth $941, at the Salvation Army located on Bishan Street 22 on Aug 25 this year, despite there being signs proclaiming "The donated items here are the property of The Salvation Army. Stealing them is an offence punishable by law".

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A 58-year-old man was sentenced to a jail term of eight weeks for causing a cat to suffer serious head and lung injuries, resulting in its death.

In a press release, the AVA said that they were alerted to an alleged animal cruelty case at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4 on Mar 14 this year. Ow had admitted to throwing a stray cat on the floor before throwing it down a rubbish cute from his residence.

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The police had spotted him in his car during his loan shark runner stint, and had asked him to step out of his car. Instead of stepping out, he continued driving, causing one police officer, who was holding his car door, to lose his footing and fall to the ground. The officer, who suffered superficial injuries, and his partner continued chasing after Zhou.

While trying to flee, Zhou slammed his car into the bumper and sides of two other nearby cars. It was revealed in court that Zhou became a loandshark runner after he could not pay off his debts owned to a loanshark known as Dominique, and he has been working for Dominique since December 2015.

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In the incident, Darragh, who was highly intoxicated, had six policemen to finally arrest him. After he was released on police bail, Darragh continued drinking and offending. On April 21, he caused annoyance to the public when drunk near Clarke Quay. And on April 26, he was found drunk at Orchard Towers and taken to hospital because of an injured leg. There, he verbally abused a police officer who was escorting him. On May 1, he was drunk yet again, causing annoyance to the public near Clarke Quay.

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An engineer gets 10 days' jail and 5-year driving ban for causing a motorcyclist's death, even though the motorcyclist had been speeding in excess of 100km/hr on a main road. The man, S.N. Vasutavan, 69, made an illegal left turn from the centre lane of a road into a side road, resulting in a collision with a motorcyclist who subsequently died from multiple injuries.

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Terence Lam Guo Long had show photos taken during an investigation to dispatch rider Lim Sua Huat, who had told the former station inspector that a gang leader wanted to know which members of the gang was involved. Lam received a total of $1,000 over two payments in return.

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John had pleaded guilty in March this year of causing Mr Wong's death by a negligent act. He had also been found guilty of causing grievous hurt to a nine-year-old cyclist in a separate traffic accident three weeks earlier.

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A family struggling with unemployment has been unable to pay their Service and Conservancy charges. Instead of helping them, the Town Council billed them massive penalty and legal fees amounting to $970 - this amount is even higher than the actual conservancy charge they had to pay!